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| Topic Started: May 17 2006, 11:52 PM (959 Views) | |
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May 17 2006, 11:52 PM Post #1 |
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Have you ever thought of using all those postage stamps for tea bag folding. Just cut around the stamp on the envelope and use as triangle folds only. I fold across for the triangle, then cut it to shape, then continue. Just a thought.. Rosanna 
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 VirginiaS
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May 18 2006, 03:34 AM Post #2 |
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Good idea!! I get so many letters, what a great way to save the stamps. I also have a bunch of two penny ones from when the price went up that I will never use again cause I can guarantee I will lose them the second the price goes up again.. 
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 jo145
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May 18 2006, 07:21 AM Post #3 |
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Sounds a bit fiddly but worth a try. Hope it doesn't mean we're defacing the Queens head and end up in trouble though! 
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Poppy
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May 18 2006, 10:24 AM Post #4 |
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I think it probably does Jo, that means we could get carted off to the Tower of London and lose our heads? Off with their heads!!!! 
(all the stamp using tea bag folders losing their heads)???Poppy 
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May 18 2006, 11:08 AM Post #5 |
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Sounds like a great idea to me - and a clever way to share stamps between countries  Rosanna Just a thought, don't decorate the outside of envelopes/boxes with used stamps, though - the phosphor dots may cause delivery problems
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twinthing
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May 18 2006, 11:08 AM Post #6 |
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thats a great Idea! Im off to rumage round my paper recycling bin now! 
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jo145
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May 18 2006, 01:51 PM Post #7 |
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Oh Poppy! Does Steve mean it's a great idea"Off with our heads!"
perhaps he means the stamp folding!
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waxingsteve
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May 18 2006, 03:42 PM Post #8 |
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Definitely, Jo
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Poppy
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May 18 2006, 04:30 PM Post #9 |
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Sadly I think he does JO? Right I am off to the other forum now where they are still in awe of me reaching 1,000 posts? Poppy 
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waxingsteve
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May 18 2006, 04:47 PM Post #10 |
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You'll always be our multi-millionaire, Poppy 
Steve
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Poppy
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May 18 2006, 07:53 PM Post #11 |
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OOOOOOOOOO I could never resist nice kind words Steve. Poppy
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May 20 2006, 03:46 PM Post #12 |
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Thats a great idea, Rosanna but i save all my english used stamps for the guidde dogs for the blind and foreign ones i save for my little grandson who is avidly collecting!!! Bet it looks pretty tho and i wouldnt mind seeing some done ??? love Jenx 
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May 25 2006, 02:19 AM Post #13 |
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Great Idea!
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Puss
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Aug 3 2006, 10:52 PM Post #14 |
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I don't think I have the eye sight required for this idea! I can't seam to find any really nice stamps either! The queen's head is not my idea of decoration! Is that unpatriotic?
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waxingsteve
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Aug 5 2006, 06:00 PM Post #15 |
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Puss, folding the Queen's head could get you put in the Tower I know I'd need those huge foreign stamps with exotic flowers/animals/etc.
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VirginiaS
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Aug 6 2006, 02:34 AM Post #16 |
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I used some stamps on the last batch of ATC's for the garden theme. I had tried folding but they were too thick for it. |
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waxingsteve
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Aug 6 2006, 08:41 AM Post #17 |
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If you have duplicates of a stamp, or can copy a stamp by scanning it in, you could create standard tea bag tiles or even the artificial tea bag graphics (Smoffi has some "faux tea bags" on her site
) It could be interesting to use both those and the real stamps in co-ordination
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VirginiaS
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Aug 8 2006, 04:48 AM Post #18 |
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Good idea Steve! My mom always asks for the pretty stamps at the post office, so I get lots of the nice Canadian ones. I'm still a little wary of our post lady so I take whatever she gives me. |
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Aug 8 2006, 10:52 AM Post #19 |
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Virginia, I remember having an old stamp album where the cover was a simple photograph of stamps, like a collage That kind of thing could make such a nice background
Or stamps combined with travelling type clip art (suitcases, trunks, that sort of thing)
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Cuddles1060
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Aug 9 2006, 06:01 PM Post #20 |
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What about us over the pond here:
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